Cotton Industries Bounty Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1932. No. 49.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE COTTON INDUSTRIES BOUNTY ACT 1930.

(First Amendment.)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following regulation under the Cotton Industries Bounty Act 1930, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eighteenth day of May, 1932.

(Sgd.) Isaac. A. Isaacs.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

 

Amendment of Cotton Industries Bounty Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1930, No. 105.)

After regulation 13 of the Cotton Industries Bounty Regulations the following regulation is inserted.—

Examination of claimants &c., on oath.

“13a—(1.) The Comptroller-General of Customs, the Collector or an authorized person may examine on oath any claimant, or any employee or agent of a claimant, or any other person whom he reasonably believes to have knowledge of any facts in relation to the accounts, books and documents referred to in regulations 12 and 13 of those Regulations, and the claimant, employee, agent or other person shall, at such examination, answer all questions asked by the Comptroller General, the Collector or the authorized person in relation to the accounts, books and documents, and shall, if required in writing by the Comptroller-General, the Collector or the authorized person, confirm by statutory declaration any statement made to the Comptroller-General, the Collector or the authorized person in relation to the accounts, books and documents.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.

“(2.) For the purposes of this regulation the Comptroller-General, the Collector or the authorized person shall have power to administer oaths.”.

 

By Authority: H. J. Green, Government Printer, Canberra.

1522.—Price 3d.